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Compare your experiential world with a puppetry.

The All-in-one Puppeteer
A Constructivist Allegory
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Marco Bettoni, 22.10.2010
Imagine yourself with the roles of puppet-maker, director,
designer,
g writer and p
performer: yyou make yyour ppuppets
pp
(yourself included), you craft your play, you design its
scenery and you direct and perform it: in short you are
an all-in-one puppeteer.
But – and now comes the crucial point - in doing all this
you are not completely free,
free your puppetry is constrained
in a very peculiar way: all the raw material out of which
you make the puppets, the scenery and the interactions
is dynamically coupled in real time – synchronized - with
the perturbations from reality (the ontic world) which are
it basis.
its b i

Although you do not know nothing about those

Puppet theatre with Gioppino and Brighella,
Brighella
Bergamo, Italy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppetry
perturbations nor about their source in the physical world
(the things in themselves), you unwarily accept your play
being continuously perturbated without asking questions;
because you are used at putting the puppets, the
scenery and the interactions as independent from you:
“At least we in our culture do it, continuously” (Maturana
1992) The dogmatic slumber (Kant 1783) prevents that
1992).
you become aware of your role as puppeteer and of the
dynamical coupling that constrains your experiential
world. This is the true mystery, that radical constructivism
generates.